Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy

Emmanuel Alloa is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His books include Resistance of the Sensible World: An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty. Frank Chouraqui is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Continental Philosophy at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. His books include Ambiguity and the Absolute: Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on the Question of Truth. Rajiv Kaushik is Professor of Philosophy at Brock University, Canada. His books include Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism: The Matrixed Ontology, also published by SUNY Press.

• Texts of Merleau-Ponty’s, AbbreviatedMerleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy: An IntroductionEmmanuel Alloa, Frank Chouraqui, Rajiv KaushikLegacies The Three Senses of Flesh: Concerning an Impasse in Merleau-Ponty’s OntologyRenaud BarbarasVortex of Time. Merleau-Ponty on TemporalityBernhard Waldenfels and Regula GiulianiUndergoing an Experience: Sensing, Bodily Affordances, and the Institution of the SelfEmmanuel AlloaBetween Sense and Non-Sense: Merleau-Ponty and "The Silence of the Absolute Language"Stephen WatsonMind and Nature The Truth of NaturalismJocelyn BenoistThe Panpsychism Question in Merleau-Ponty’s OntologyJennifer McWeenyMerleau-Ponty and Biosemiotics: From the Issue of Meaning in Living Beings to a New Deal between Science and MetaphysicsAnnabelle DufourcqPolitics, Power, Institution The Institution of the Law: Merleau-Ponty and LefortBernard FlynnPost-Truth Politics and the Paradox of PowerFrank ChouraquiInstitutional Habits: About Bodies and Orientations that Don’t FitSara AhmedArt and Creation Art after the Sublime in Merleau-Ponty and Andre Breton: Aesthetics and the Politics of Mad Love Galen A. JohnsonInstitution and Critique of the Museum in "Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence"Rajiv KaushikDeleuze’s "Philosophy-Cinema": A Variation on Merleau-Ponty’s "A-Philosophy"?Mauro CarboneStrong Beauty: In Face of Structures of ExclusionVeronique M. FotiEpilogueMerleau-Ponty: An Attempt at a ResponseJean-Luc NancyContributorsIndex

"Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy offers a rich set of writings by central and rising scholars, spanning various languages and traditions, who together show Merleau-Ponty's continuing relevance for contemporary thinking on phenomenology, mind and nature, politics and power, and art and creation. This book will advance scholarship and also open new doors for those seeking to find their way into Merleau-Ponty's ways of thinking." — David Morris, author of The Sense of Space